The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-09-30
LOVES TRIUMPH.


When the morn broke clear and the sun rose
bright
And the sea, which had tossed through that
terrible night,
On that rock.bound shore,
Ceased TO surge and TO swell In waves mountain
high,
ceased to toss is foam assrily up towards the
sky,
Ceased its horrible roar,
Then she stole from her cot, with her babe
closely pressed
'Gainst her heart, which had wildly throbbed In
her breast
Through the wearisome night;
And she moved 10 the cliffs which stood high
and steep,
and, with wide-staring eyes, looked out on The
deep
In the clear morning light.
That vast sea was as smooth as lake that's at
rest;
Not a wave could be seen upon its broad breast
As IL rolled to the land;
Yet IL silently swept far up on the beach,
Every time it came up striving higher to reach
Upon that bleak strand.
For moment her heart was filed with alright.
While she gazed on the sea- lit by mornings
clear light,
And saw far and near,
On the breast OF the deep, bits OF hull and OF
mast,
Which told of the tempest that DER it had
In that night bleak and drear.
Twas her fisherman husband for whom she
feared;
For his boat on the ocean she eagerly peered
But no sail was in sight;
Then hor eyes CHANGED to turn from the sea to
the land,
od sho saw mans form lying still on the
sand
In the clear morning light
Something strange in that form, for breath
stopped her heart,
Something known in that form caused the life
blood to dart
Through her bosom once more,
For moment she scarcely could gather her
breath,
For a moment her face was as ghas tly as death,
AS she gazcd at the shore.
Then she rushed to her cot took the babe from
her breast,
And. leaving her child in his cradle to rest,
She fastened TO go
Down the path, that was cut in the cliffs rug
god side,
To the sands where the oceans still rising tide !
Came steady and slow.
With "a fast beating heart along the dry beach, |
Which the incoming tide was trying TO reach, |
She few DER the ground;
In the form which lay there, as II dead, on its |
SIDE,
In the spot where twas left by the last rising
tide,
Her husband was found.
At his side in an instant she dropped on her
knee,
And eagerly peored at his features TO see
Were he living or dead;
But she saw that mis- face was as CHASTITY as
death,
And there came from his lips not even a breath
AS she lifted his head.
Then the shirt DER his breast she tore quickly
apart,
And her quivering hand she placed on his heart
For q moments brief space;
As she felt his hearts throb, uncertain and
slight,
Her breast filed with Joy, her eyes shone with
light
Which transformed her face.
He was CHASTITY and cold as he lay on The sand
AT the spot unto which he'd been swept on the
strand
BY that terrible storm,
But her heart leaped for Joy in the breast OF
that wife,
For she'd folt his blood throb and she knew there
was life
In that almost dead form.
With the strength OF giant born OF her love,
ono carried that form 10 inc cllH-tOp above,
From the surf-beaten shore;
And she dared on the way not moment 20
rest
Lest the heart that family beat in his breast
Should cease evermore.
To their cot, near at hand, her burden she bore.
And, though her frame shook as she entered the
door, ,
Her heart did not quail; ,
Yet she sighed when she'd placed his form on
the bed,
Tor his eyes we're wide staring as IL he were :
dead,
And his face CHASTITY pale
With the courage OF love she fought for his life,
With the vigor OF love she entered the strife
Aud conquered grim Death;
For she saw, in good time, light CLEAN in his |
eye,
And she heard with delight from his bosom {
sigh,
And she felt his faint breath. q
Love had won, as oft times II had won before;
Love had won, as IL will till our loving is DER,
Till We pass from this earth;
Strength had come to her arms as her husband
she bore, Y
Strength had come to her frame that she ne'er !
known before
TIL love gave II birth. |
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